A specialty, or alternative, restaurant requires a nightly per person fee in addition to your cruise fare.

When you first board your cruise ship, you are embarking. You disembark the ship at the end of the cruise.

Every cruise ship offers accommodations in different categories, ranging from inside staterooms (no windows) to ocean view (with a porthole or panoramic windows) to balcony/veranda rooms to full-blown [..]

Any group of individuals—a company, church group, or family members—can charter all or part of a cruise ship. It’s a good idea to ask if there are any partial charters booked on any sailing you’re int [..]

If you book a “crossing,” that means your itinerary crosses the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.

The cruise ticket contract lists the terms and conditions passengers agree to when they book a sailing. It lists all types of things, like what you can expect if your cruise is canceled or what happen [..]

The cruise fare outlines how much each person will pay for the voyage and stipulates exactly what is included in that fare.

You can’t easily learn your way around a ship without first reviewing the deck plan. These illustrations show what type of staterooms are located on each deck along with the location of elevators, lau [..]

Most cruise fares are based on double occupancy. That means two people sharing one cabin.

Also known as “run of ship,” a guarantee is a type of cruise fare. You book a particular cabin category but are not assigned a cabin number. Instead, the cruise ship keeps selling that cabin category. [..]